Digital Health August 11, 2020
The Digital Healthcare Council’s members have mobilised at unprecedented scale to support the NHS and social care in their response. Its director, Graham Kendall, outlines what has worked, and what needs to change.
It is increasingly clear that there will not be an immediate return to normal after Covid.
Without a game-changing medical breakthrough implemented in the near future, the next phase will bring profound changes and will last well into 2021. If we are to move forward, we will need to learn some key lessons from the past few months.
A potentially lethal mix of backlogs and reduced capacity
Despite the surge in remote appointments and online consultations, we know that the total number of appointments and care episodes...